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Making a living as a knitwear designer 1/2

27 May 2018 • Leave a Comment

Like every personal post, dealing with subjects difficult to talk about, this one took me a while to mature and to finally write it… Let’s dive in ! As a knitwear designer, it is really hard to make a living out of it. Everyone knows the names of some famous knitwear designers (Ysolda Teague, Stephen West, Jared Flood, Andrea Moory, Joji Locatelli…)which are well-known and whom we think sell a lot of patterns (right- or wrongfully, I don’t know). In fact, this is not the case for most knitwear designers…

New knitting pattern : Rosalaine

1 May 2018 • Leave a Comment

Sophie (@sophie.kamalaine on Instagram)is a fiber friend. She is passionate about yarn, wool, their origin, how they are processed, natural dyeing. One day, she decided to go for it. Last Fall, she came to a yarn festival where I had a booth and she handed me 2 skeins of HER yarn, offering me to create a pattern with it… I couldn’t resist !

Family holidays in Vercors

18 April 2018 • Leave a Comment

When we booked that week of holidays in last november, we didn’t know how much we would need it… Winter has been especially harsh on us. Since christmas, we’ve been harassed by germs, taking turns not to leave us any resting time… Add to that the return of Madeleine’s waking up every night… We were exhausted and we all really need to breathe ! We left for a week in West Vercors, for a forest house in an almost uninhabited hamlet, by the side of a state forest. The house was big, full of light and cosy, even if a bit rustic and not always practical for some aspects (the kitchen…). Bordered by a state forest, we enjoyed the land, the view, the forest and fresh air. And all of us could rest a lot… And that was exactly what we needed !

A hat for a knife

26 March 2018 • Leave a Comment

I met Lilian and Marjolaine through Angèle (from Madlaine) during Spring 2017. They are fonding members of the association Une Figue dans le Poirier and supports really beautiful values. As luck would have it, this encounter was the perfect thing for me, at the perfect time, and it seemed like the obvious thing for me. Since then, we have set up and are working on multiple projects together, but not only. A true, real friendship has developped between us and I am proud to have count them as close friends… I think I will tell you more about them and their association (with an interview maybe ?), because it is a project I really like and support, but that is not the subject today. In December, during a meeting at their place, I discovered the firsts knives forged by Lilian, in his forge he had just installed in their place. I loved instantly this high-quality hand-crafted work and I told myself I would someday buy one of his knives. That’s when Lilian offered me a deal : he would forge me a knife if I knitted him a hat ! As you can tell, I accepted !

Experimenting is the key

28 February 2018 • Leave a Comment

2018 has started for a while now. This blog post has been on my mind since the beginning of January, but I delayed its writing for quite a long time… procrastination, a little bit… fear, most of all… It’s always hard to announce changes, but, some times, you just have to dive in… For the last 3 years, I set myself some goals (personal and professionnal). This year was now exception, but I also decided to choose one key word (well, actually, two, one personal, one profesional, but let’s talk about my pro one).This key word emphasize my profesionnal goals and will guide me in my reflections and choices through the year… Like a lighthouse ! It is a way for me to keep in mind, as the monthes will pass by, the essential…

2017 outlooks

12 January 2018 • Leave a Comment

Inspired by Murielle (@vue_sur sur Instagram), I wanted to show you some the Instagram accounts I loved following in 2017 : they inspired me, made me want to try, go further or just gave me peace…

Freestyle sashiko

20 November 2017 • Leave a Comment

Since September, I have felt overwhelmed, tired, with too many things to do with so little time, being underwater all the time. At some point, I had to take a step back, look at all the pros and personal goals I had set for myselfs and admit something wasn’t feeling right : I was putting too much pressure on myself and close to burn out. So, I step down, took some time for myself, for thinking… the important was me and my family. My kids don’t care at all if the house is clean or not, as long as they have a calm, serene mum… for everything else, it will come later (or not at all) ! I decided to forgot every goal I had set for myself. I made a few things (but not so much), taking my time, without pressure nor deadlines, to breathe, refocuse on myself and find some peaceof mind. And it felt so good !

Memories of summer

6 September 2017 • Leave a Comment

I have lots of memories of Britany. when I was a child, we would go on holidays there every 2 to 3 years and I have in my minds lots of happy memories of those times : feeling the smell of the ocean before even seeing it, being the first to see it when we were arriving, picking shells, looking for tiny crabs in the ponds and the rocks at low tide, swimming in the cold water and the waves, the salty smell in the air and the salty skin, sand between our toes, sunsets over the ocean and looking for the lighthouses in the night, fish and crustaceans… I could go on like that !

My Dear Watson

6 June 2017 • Leave a Comment

What happened before : Cosy (you) During Winter, Capucine kept growing (No ? Yes !)… So, early in March, wanting to anticipate a little, I decide to knit her a new cardigan, one size bigger (8 yo for my 5-years-old girl…), in a thinner and lighter yarn to make a spring-summer cardi.

Cosy (you)

2 June 2017 • 1 Comment

Back in October, Capucine also needed a new sweater… (Pictures were taken last week, tough, completely off-season…) Why do kids grow up ? I barely finish one sweater that they already need a new one one size bigger… Who am I kidding ? I love knitting for them, it’s fast, and, as long as they appreciate it, I should enjoy it because, some people say it doesn’t last long…

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